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About Erik Hillestad
- Erik Hillestad (born 12 December 1951) is a Norwegian record producer and lyricist. He is founder and manager of the company and record label Kirkelig Kulturverksted.
- He has received several awards for his works, including a 1992 Fritt Ord Honorary Award.Hillestad established in 1974 the record company Kirkelig Kulturverksted, for which he has produced a large part of the releases.
- Internationally he has worked with music collaborations focusing on human rights and solidarity.
- In Ecuador (from 1990), Palestine (from 1992), South Africa (1994), Azerbaijan (1997), Iran (from 2007), Turkey (from 2012), Lebanon and Egypt (from 2013).
- He has arranged concerts honoring Dalai Lama and Tibet (Dharamsala 1998) and for building bridge between the two Koreas (Seoul 2000).
- As a response to the rhetoric of George W Bush, he initiated and produced the CD ”Lullabies from the Axis of Evil" with artists from Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, North Korea, Syria and Cuba (2004).
- The record was followed up by a series of productions with Rim Banna from Palestine and Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat from Iran.
- Hillestad has together with Mahsa Vahdat translated a selection of 100 poems of the Persian poet Hafez into Norwegian.
- (I vinens speil, 2010). In 2000 his company established the venue Kulturkirken Jakob in central Oslo.
- It is an old neo gothic church from 1880, which had been closed as a parish church since 1985.
- Under the leadership of Hillestad it has been developed into a venue for music, visual arts and theater performances.
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